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    The world is in turmoil. Society is at a crossroad. The older generation is giving way to the newer generation with swift changes. Finance, politics, religion, culture, diseases, the climate, are seeing rapid changes. Here, we provide thought-provoking insights into the current and impending crises facing the world.

    The Antediluvians

    Prior to the flood that destroyed the world, Noah warned them of the coming crises. This poem depicts the antediluvian age and its sad end. As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man?

    For centuries the sins of a doomed people continued without contrition

    When the sons of God lusted after the daughters of men with a passion

    Oh, the folly! For their fairness was a deception

    Like the daughters of Moab under Balaam, securing Israel’s retribution

    At Shittim, when they joined Baal-peor without divine permission

    Alas! The divine judgment that saw no revision

    “My Spirit shall not always strive with man,” what a miserable decision

    Forced from a grieved heart that had repented of His creation

    Which had filled the earth with violence and inexorable corruption

    That was blatantly indulged without reflection

    “The end of all flesh is come before me”, was the divine enunciation

    That sealed the destiny of a world in retribution

    Which for ages, had treated divine entreaties with derision

    Till lone Noah, entering the Ark, left them to their perversion

    Alas, the guilty race’s sins have passed remission!

    Oh, their obduracy, the marching teams of beasts couldn’t inspire a contemplation!

    Nor could the dazzling brightness of an angel shutting the ark, force them into recession

    For seven days the wrath of God delayed with compassion

    After shutting the Ark and sealing the Earth’s probation

    Behold the world, emboldened by this delay, mocking Noah’s message as a delusion!

    Dark angry clouds clashed and thunders roared, throwing all creation into confusion

    The fear of man and the blaring cries of beasts knew no description

    At the highest points, every life sought refuge from the divine retaliation

    Powerful lightning burned out their idols, golden mansions… from their vision

    While heavy raindrops, before unseen, deluged the earth without discretion

    The surging jets of springs tearing the earth’s crusts were more than a premonition

    Rivers overflowed their banks and changed their course, flooding every adoration

    Such shall be the terror of man at Christ’s second coming, with a similar mission

    No more with a flood but with fire in this second edition

    To melt the world and its inhabitants that have made sin their preoccupation

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